Amy Hanauer
@amyhanauer
Fix the tax code. Turn justice into reality. Don't blame my employer for stuff I say here.
Get paid to tax the rich. ITEP is hiring a Senior Researcher for our state team. itep.org/hiring-senio...
WSJ working overtime to find pic without that million dollar smile. Also paragraph 9 reveals Mamdani favorability is rising and at 69% among likely NYC voters.
“There is always someone who got things right in their time and was punished for it,” says @nicholsuprising.bsky.social about Henry Wallace.
When @topefolarin.bsky.social reads the opening of the preamble to the constitution, we’re reminded of what we’re supposed to be doing: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…” Let’s get to it.
The incomparable @sarahanderson.bsky.social is taking on corporations, billionaires and the pentagon. Get out of her way.
yep - 75% of corporate tax breaks go to either foreign investors or the wealthiest 5% of Americans. Time to rein them in so we can pay for health care, infrastructure and other essentials for the rest of us
Gonna have to amend my trusty protest sign. It’s all of us against the T-rillionaire
Everyone should celebrate the averted NYC doorman strike by tipping the doorman (and handymen and supers) extra and by reading this excellent book www.chrispavone.com/the-doorman/
The number of corporate tax avoider and the amount they’re dodging keeps rising. Find today’s tally here: itep.org/corporate-ta...
The ITEP tax avoidance ticker just passed $100 billion in taxes avoided by US firms under Trump tax law. Check back on it here: itep.org/corporate-ta...
If you bought one ticket from Live Nation, you paid them more than they paid in taxes under Trump #SOTU2026
When Trump talks about taxes in tonight’s #SOTU, remember who he kissed up to with his tax law.
Fun fact: Only three OECD countries collect less corporate tax revenue as a share of GDP than the US: Latvia, Estonia & the Slavic Republic. Tax the rich & close corporate loopholes.
Ohio could raise a billion dollars by passing a modest Wealth Proceeds Tax.
States can easily raise lots of money from very rich people by passing a Wealth Proceeds Tax. Here’s what IL could raise.
Check out how lopsided these tax cuts are. Millionaires in Missouri get a tax cut 529 times larger than the average Missouri taxpayer. Ohio, Mississippi, Kansas & Oklahoma making similar bad choices.
Hey DC - This phenomenal film is playing for one night only, Tue Sep 9, with an after film discussion with the filmmaker, the great @feliciawong.bsky.social & me. Join us!
Here’s a map. Nice work Montana, Utah, Maine, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia.
The tax bill being raced through Congress gives $124 billion in tax cuts next year to the richest 1% and makes the largest tax cuts to healthcare and food assistance in history. I’ll talk about this and more tomorrow with Senators Kaine, Murphy, Warren, Whitehouse and others.
Examine your own state here - in one random example (Ohio, where I raised my kids), the inequity of these tax breaks are even worse than for the country as a whole.